Conditionals and Prediction : Time, Knowledge, and Causation in Conditional Constructions /
This book offers an in-depth analysis of English conditional sentences. Dancygier classifies conditional constructions according to time-reference and modality. Focused on English, the study also provides a framework that can be extended to a range of grammatical phenomena in many other languages.
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1999
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Series: | Cambridge studies in linguistics ;
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